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No Face to Hide

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

Face it – your mug is not entirely your own. It’s routinely uploaded to social media pages and captured on CCTV cameras with – and without – your ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, Indie3 Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, KTSW 89.9 and more

Added: Jan 09, 2017
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 22

The Light Stuff

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

The light bulb needs changing. Edison’s incandescent bulb, virtually unaltered for more than a century, is now being eclipsed by the LED. The cre...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WUFT, WMUU-LP, 91.7 WHUS Storrs and more

Added: Jan 02, 2017
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 19

The Fix is In

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

The moon jellyfish has remarkable approach to self-repair. If it loses a limb, it rearranges its remaining body parts to once again become radiall...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, RadioFreePalmer, WRIR and more

Added: Dec 26, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 15

Skeptic Check: Fear Itself

From: Big Picture Science

Shhh. We have to make this quick. There are a lot of scary events going on in the world. You may also worry about the stuff they might not be tel...

Bought by 91.7 WHUS Storrs, XRAY.fm, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRST-FM Oshkosh, RadioFreePalmer and more

Added: Dec 19, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 9

AMOS 16.255: Diamonds: An Electronic Device's Best Friend, 12/22/2016

From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science

Diamonds: An Electronic Device's Best Friend

Added: Dec 12, 2016
Length: 02:00

AMOS 16.253: Spuds 'n Sand, 12/20/2016

From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science

Spuds 'n Sand

Added: Dec 12, 2016
Length: 02:00

What Lies Beneath

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

What you can’t see may astound you. Beneath the oceans’ churning surface, oceanographers have recently discovered the largest volcano in the world...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], 91.7 WHUS Storrs and more

Added: Nov 28, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 24

And To Space We Return

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

Earth may be the cradle of life, but our bodies are filled with materials cooked up billions of years ago in the scorching centers of stars. An as...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KTSW 89.9, WRGY, RadioFreePalmer and more

Added: Nov 07, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 13

Hidden History

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

Archeologists continue to hunt for the city of Atlantis, even though it may never have existed. And paleontologists now suspect that it wasn’t jus...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more

Added: Oct 31, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 18

Moral's Law

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

“If it bleeds, it leads” they say in the news biz. Indeed, headlines are often no more than a long list of moral atrocities. Yet one man argues t...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, KTSW 89.9, WRIR and more

Added: Oct 24, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 18

Native Grasses In The Hills

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

I am not that great at identifying native grasses, but I keep on trying . Thank goodness some are really quite easy to ID and that makes me feel so...

Added: Oct 18, 2016
Length: 05:19

Soaring Birds and Snake Cotton

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Autumn is the season of migration for many avian species and in the borderlands of southern Arizona hummingbirds are passing through, sparrows are ...

Added: Oct 18, 2016
Length: 10:30

Cattails And Cranes

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

This show could also be called Typha latifolia and Grus canadensis, which has a nice scientific ring to it.

Added: Oct 18, 2016
Length: 05:13

Skeptic Check: Science and the Election

From: Big Picture Science

It’s a divisive election year, but there is public consensus that science and technology policy issues matter. So why aren’t the candidates discus...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more

Added: Oct 10, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 8

(Natural) Childbirth

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: Illustration from Obstetric tables depicting the correct use of forceps in 1850., Credit: Spratt, G. (George). Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.

Added: Oct 07, 2016
Length: 01:01:12

Bug-a-thon!

From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program

We pair fine wine with large insects as Dr. Bryan Stuart from the NC Museum of Natural Sciences supervises. An entertaining show for anyone who ha...

Added: Sep 27, 2016
Length: 01:00:00

Skeptic Check: Skeptic Seth

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

Are you skeptical? Do you readily accept the claimed benefits of organic milk, or the whitening ingredients in your toothpaste? What about the da...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, CHSR-FM 97.9, KUNM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more

Added: Sep 26, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 19

Synthetic Wine?

From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program

We learn about Synthetic Wine. We also check the Mailbag and cherish a visit from Alex, The Wine Guru, as he discusses Sexy Chardonnay. A fun sho...

Added: Sep 22, 2016
Length: 01:00:00

A Wine Glass that Levitates

From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program

We discuss the 16 Wine Rules when traveling to France with our French Panel. We also speak with the creator of The Levitating CUP, the wine glass ...

Added: Sep 21, 2016
Length: 01:00:00

BugFest!

From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program

We pair fine wine with insects as Dr. Magdalena Sorger, entomologist with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, discusses her love of Ants. A fun sho...

Added: Sep 21, 2016
Length: 01:00:00

Sex Post Facto

From: Gary Niederhoff

Birds do it, bees do it, but humans may not do it for much longer – at least not for having kids. Instead, babies will be made in the lab, with ge...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and WMUU-LP

Added: Sep 19, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 2

The Evolution of Evolution

From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science

Move over, Darwin. With genetic engineering, we can make radical changes to species in just one generation. As humans begin to tinker with their ...

Bought by KUNM, XRAY.fm, KVNF, WXDU, WMUU-LP and more

Added: Sep 12, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 17

Asteroids!

From: Gary Niederhoff

Everyone knows that a big rock did in the dinosaurs, but smaller asteroids hit Earth much more often. An astronomer describes the odds that your de...

Bought by WMUU-LP